COVID-19 patient Tony Passarelli was put on a ventilator at the Etobicoke General Hospital in Toronto back in March, doctors had painted a bleak picture for the 52-year-old.“That night when he got transferred over there, they basically said he’s a very sick man and won’t make it through the night,” his wife Linda Passarelli recalled.
Two shots. A waiting period. Why the coronavirus vaccine won’t be a quick fix After seven days of more complications, fever, infections and kidney problems, Passarelli was transferred to the Toronto General Hospital, where doctors put him on the extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) machine as a last resort.